Hanger for gutters



March 14, 1939. c. P. BOYD HANGER FOR GUTTERS Filed April 3, 1937 W/T/VESS.

Patented Mar. 14, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE HANGER FOR GUTTERS Charles P. Boyd, Yeadon, Pa.

Application April 3, 1937, Serial No. 134,719

4 Claims.

The object of my invention is to provide an of the prior art and of the attached claims may improved hanger or support for gutters or eave troughs. This hanger is easier and more economical to manufacture and is more efficient and practical in use. I

More specifically, my invention consists in the hanger or support which carries the stem to which the gutter circles are adjustably attached. The hanger or support consists of a base plate made in two parts, each of which has an upstanding lip arranged to support and reinforce each other and to engage each other and portions of the stem, so that the whole device forms a strong and integral hanger or support.

For a further exposition of my invention, reference may be had to the annexed drawing and specification, at the end thereof my invention will be specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my device.

Fig. 2 isa longitudinal cross-section on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1. I

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, with parts broken away.

Fig. 4 is a transverse cross-section on the line 44 of Fig. 3.

In that embodiment selected from among others for illustration in Figs. 1-4 of the drawing, my device is shown as consisting of a base made of a pair of thin plates I and 2 having perforations 3 therein for attaching the device to the roof or walls of a building adjacent or under the cave thereof. Base plates l and 2 may be provided with depending ears 4 which provide a larger surface for engagement with the roof of a building, and also a greater number of perforations 3 provide for selective attachment of the device to the roof or building. Plates l and 2 also have at one edge bent-up lips 5 and 6, respectively. Plate 2 has a perforation l therein through which lip 5 of plate I extends, so that the upper and lower edges of lip 5 engage with the upper and lower edges of opening 1 and the inner faces of lips 5 and 6 abut. There is provided a stem 8 which may be conveniently channeled by the provision of upstanding flanges 9 and which has a plurality of perforations 10 therein for attachment of the gutter hanger circles. The lips 5 and 6 are perforated and a fastening means H, such as a headed rivet, passes through these openings and through one of the openings ill in the stem 8 and thus secures the plates and the stem together.

I do not intend to be limited save as the scope require.

I claim:-

1. In a gutter hanger, an attaching support for the hanger circle consisting of, a pair of 5 plates, a lip bent from the plane of each of said. plates, one of said lips passing through an. opening in the other of said plates, said lips abutting on their inside faces so as to reinforce each other and to beheld against lateral movement 10 in the plane of said plates.

2. A hanger for gutters comprising, a pair of flat, thin plateshaving perforations therein and having depending ears providing an enlarged abutting or contacting surface, a lip struck from 15 the plane of each of said plates, one of said lips passing through an opening in the other of said plates, said lips abutting at their inner faces and being perforated, a perforated stem contacting with the outer face of the lip of the plate 20 having the opening therein, and attaching means passing through the perforations in said lips and securing said plates and. said stem together.

3. A hanger for gutter circles comprising, a pair of plates each having a flat base, a pair of lips extending laterally from said plates between their 25 ends, there being securing openings through said plates at the outer sides of said lips for the reception of fastening means for securing said plates against a supporting surface, one of said plates having an opening therein through which 30 the lip on the other of said plates passes, and a. gutter-circle-supporting-stem of channeled crosssection secured with the back of its web against the outer face of the lip on said plate which has the opening therein by fastening means passing 35 through the web of the stem and said two lips, whereby the two lips and the stem are drawn into 7 close contact, one flange of the stem extending along one of said plates, whereby the stem is held against movement about the fastening means as 40 a pivot.

4. A support for a gutter hanger circle comprising, a two-part base made up of a pair of thin, flat plates the adjacent ends of which are bent over at right angles with respect to one another, one of said bent-over ends passing through an opening in the other of said plates, said ends extending outwardly in abuttment to form a flange having a flat face for attaching a stem, said flange being apertured, a stem of channeliron the. flat face of which abuts against the fiat face of said flange, and a rivet passing through said flange and stem and securing. said plates and said stem together.

CHARLES P. BOYD. 55 

